Monastics

City Of Ten Thousand Buddhas - Traditions Held At The Monastery
... other Chinese Buddhist monasteries, the monastics always wear their kasaya sashes (long sashes that are worn outside the monastic clothing), and they eat only one ... Monastics at the city do not have any social lives, nor do men and women intermingle ... Some monastics even choose to maintain a vow of silence, for varying periods of time ...

Buddhist Monasticism - Monastic Life
... The Buddhist monastic order is theoretically divided into two assemblies, the male bhikkhu (Pali, Skt ... Female monastic communities in the bhikkhuni lineage were never established in the Vajrayana communities of Tibet and Nepal Theravada communities formerly existed, but died out between the 11th and 14th ... to the Ten Precepts, but are not responsible for living by the full set of monastic rules, vinaya ...

Mantle (vesture) - Monastics
... The monastic mantle is worn by Orthodox Christian monks and nuns of the Lesser Schema and Great Schema ... The mantle worn by a simple monk or nun is black (black being the traditional monastic color, symbolizing mourning over one's sins and a reminder of the vow of poverty), joined ... to be attributed to the mantle " mantle is a monastic vestment, which covers the whole person with the exception of the head ...

Orthodox Church - Traditions - Monasticism
... wish to do this therefore separate themselves from the world and live as monastics monks and nuns ... weapons of prayer and fasting in spiritual warfare against their passions, monastics hold a very special and important place in the Church ... There are three main types of monastics ...

Death To The World - History
... as a medium of evangelism to teens involved in the punk subculture by monastics who were ex-punks ... metal band Sleep in 1991, left for seven years of monastic life while Sleep went on to become metal icons ... Originally, the monastics planned to submit an article about Fr ...